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Jun 25
by Bindu Katikithala in Architecture, Cities, Delhi, Historical Places, People, Travel 0 comments

Tughlaqabad

Walking up a winding approach from the Qutub-Badarpur road and through a postern which has a finely arched roof to enter Tughlaqabad fort complex with its size, shape and spread of over 6km in the midst of a bustling, overcrowded metropolis like Delhi is a veritable delight.
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Jun 25
by Bindu Katikithala in Architecture, Cities, Delhi, Historical Places, Travel 0 comments

St. James’ Church Delhi

Discreetly pretentious is the mustard dome that rises loftily from behind tall iron gates opposite a decrepit Kashmiri Gate, at the intersection of Church Road and Lothian Road. This is the dome of the first ever church built in Delhi – St. James’ Church commissioned by Colonel James Skinner.
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Jun 25
by Bindu Katikithala in Architecture, Cities, Europe, Historical Places, Travel 0 comments

Land of the Aryans

We walked out of arrivals lounge in Shiraz international airport on that November evening in 2015 expecting to be met not by the young Indian waving to us but by   our Iranian guide Reza. Wondering why there was a change in plans even before we commenced our long awaited tour of Iran, we advanced towards him.
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Dec 25
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Romancing the Stones – Khajuraho

A quick photographic excursion to explore and capture natural & anthropogenic wonders, through the mind’s eye, the SLR lens and to etch them in the warp & weft of memory is now an intermittent detour from my hectic life. It is a ‘health break’, to use modern phraseology that describes necessary physical and mental activities, intended to maintain balance & composure in the face of taxing official work.
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Feb 26
by Bindu Katikithala in Cities, Europe, Travel 0 comments

The Baden Baden I fell in love with

A place, which has been figuring on the “must visit” list of any serious traveler for the past two thousand years.A fairy tale land in the mysterious Schwarzwald.
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Feb 26
by Bindu Katikithala in Nature, North East India, Travel 0 comments

Destination Mompa Land, North East India

Motoring into the extravagantly beautiful heights of Arunachal Pradesh, the eastern sentinel of India to reach Tawang, perched daintily 10,500 ft above msl ( mean sea level), is a blazing testimonial to the ecstatic triumph of journeying over the customary inevitability of reaching the destination.
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Feb 26
by Bindu Katikithala in Europe, Travel 0 comments tags: Bohemia, Europe, Travel

A holiday in Bohemia!

When the clandestine love affair between Irene Adler, the Prima Donna of the Imperial Opera of Warsaw and Wilhelm GottsreichSigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein screamed through the columns of the Strand Magazine in the year 1891,
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